Bii's Books
Sunday 6 March 2016
It's been a while
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It's been a while since I've posted anything here. I had this crazy idea that I would focus on my writing rather than blogging, as t...
Saturday 4 July 2015
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
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Every book is a kind of encounter, an encounter with the mind of the writer and whatever it is about themself that they choose to reveal. S...
Sunday 7 June 2015
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
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“It is a tale too slow for the impatience of our age,” Shepherd writes in 1947 and 58 years later it is an observation which couldn’t feel ...
Monday 1 June 2015
Treasures
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As an inveterate book buyer, almost unapologetic, recently released to a book buying spree, I often try to understand what it is that makes...
Friday 29 May 2015
Trying to Keep Still by Jenny Diski
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I had just started my latest attempt at book writing, limiting my reading and blogging to one book a week, when I picked up this book by Je...
Sunday 24 May 2015
The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho (translator Nobuyuki Yuasa)
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No, not that Narrow Road to the Deep North, the ubiquitous Booker winning novel by Richard Flanagan gracing every shelf of every bookshop ...
Saturday 16 May 2015
High Rise by J. G. Ballard
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I was walking to work recently and I was thinking about J. G. Ballard, I’m not sure why. For some reason J. G. Ballard popped into my head,...
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